If the newcomers acquire fuel production and reprocessing facilities then the risk of material finding its way into weapons will rise sharply.

如果新兴核国家获取了燃料生产和再加工设施，那么材料流向武器制造的危险将急剧增加。

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Uranium and plutonium are most likely to find their way into weapons via the enrichment and reprocessing of fuel for nuclear power plants.

铀和钚很可能通过核电厂燃料的浓缩和再加工而流向武器制造。

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The country has not achieved its goal of nuclear self-sufficiency by reprocessing spent fuel.

国家通过对于废燃料的再加工并没有实现其核能自足的目标。

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The Obama Administration has dismissed spent-fuel reprocessing systems already used in France and Japan because of security and environmental risks.

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Would it make sense to embrace some sort of closed-fuel cycle, with limited reprocessing of spent fuel?

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In a study completed late last year, Oak Ridge officials determined that the U.S. is at least 20 years away from large-scale reprocessing of used nuclear fuel, if it decides to pursue such technologies.

FORBES: U.S. To Bury Almost All Existing Used Nuclear Fuel; Recycling Deferred At Least 20 Years